Local Sports

A scheduling anomaly afforded friends and family of four Tri-City National Lacrosse League players the rare opportunity to watch them play in a championship match at the Langley Events Centre last Saturday night.

Port Moody's Rich Chambers is known well for his enormous energy and constant court-side chatter as a basketball coach. He never sounded more subdued as he did Monday.

In simple terms, Mathew Guidi is going from a T-wolve to a T-bird.

First came Amsterdam, Paris, London and Brussels for Coquitlam's Kevin Vigna. Next will come New York. Not long after returning from a European tour via a spring-break trip via his high school, Burnaby's St.

Even Port Coquitlam five-pin bowler Jeremy Chatt couldn't believe himself last Saturday and, on Wednesday, he was still beside himself. The 16-year-old Chatt did something no youth bowler in B.C.

Coquitlam Minor Hockey director John Blessman's contribution to the sport is worth at least $100,000, figure the players and parents of the local hockey community.

The Terry Fox Ravens coasted to an 11th place finish at the boys AAA basketball provincial championships last weekend at the Langley Events Centre.

Douglas College's nursing program will get a boost this fall from newly recruited, 6'1" Royals' volleyball player Taylor Gammel.

Competitive Tri-City swimmers from the Hyack Swim Club helped their teammates glide into second place at the Provincial Short Course Championships from Feb. 28 to March 3 in Victoria.

It was a seventh place finish for the Riverside Rapids at the B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships - the team's seventh provincial appearance in a row.